History
Historical sources, archival material, and long-range context.
Farewell to a Giant of Botany
Jonathan Swift's Last Joke
Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names
Canonical Under Attack
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930
Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h
New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,300 years ago, discovered in Rome
Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve
How an Oil Refinery Works
The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life
For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa
GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts
Withnail's Coat and I
The biggest insect ever was a "dragonfly"
Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult
Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause
Electrostatics and High Voltage Links
Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
XOXO Festival Archive
Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Humpback whales are forming super-groups
Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena
Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
The Official GBBS Pro Repository
A History of Erasures: Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil
An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Five Simple Steps to Fix America
Ferrari: What happens when you staple a luxury brand to a sports team? (Audio)
Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495
The physics of F1 cars are awesome.
2026: the biggest year of M&A in history?
The Wartime CEO: Vlad Tenev of Robinhood
Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations, Noah's Ark, and Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics | Lex Fridman Podcast #454
Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449
Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443
The bacteria that shaped history: Yersinia pestis – David Reich
The Biggest Money Laundering Scheme In History – Patrick McKenzie
